Qwen-VL
Qwen-VL is the open-weights multimodal large language model family from Alibaba’s Qwen team, with multiple successive generations released since 2023. The current Qwen3-VL line ships in both dense and Mixture-of-Experts architectures scaling from edge (~2-3B) to cloud (235B-A22B), with Instruct and reasoning-enhanced variants. The widely adopted Qwen2.5-VL series, released in January 2025, comes in 3B, […]
ALOHA + Mobile ALOHA
ALOHA (A Low-cost Open-source Hardware system for bimanual teleoperation) and its mobile successor Mobile ALOHA are open-source data-collection platforms developed by Tony Z. Zhao, Zipeng Fu, and Chelsea Finn at Stanford University, with Mobile ALOHA published at CoRL 2024. The original ALOHA is a static bimanual puppeteering rig that lets a human operator drive two […]
Meta Aria Research Kit
Project Aria is Meta Reality Labs Research’s egocentric multimodal sensing platform, comprising research glasses worn like ordinary spectacles plus a desktop tools and machine-perception services suite. The Gen 1 device, distributed since 2020, includes an RGB camera, two SLAM cameras, eye-tracking cameras, an IMU, magnetometer, barometer, GNSS, and spatial microphones, with onboard recording of 1-2 […]
OpenCV
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is the world’s largest open-source computer vision library and a foundational dependency in essentially every commercial robot with a camera. Originally an Intel Research Labs project that began in 1999 and was first publicly released in 2000, it is today maintained by the non-profit Open Source Vision Foundation and […]
ROS 2 (Robot Operating System)
ROS 2 (Robot Operating System 2) is an open-source middleware framework for building robot software, maintained by Open Robotics under the Open Source Robotics Foundation. It is the production-grade successor to ROS 1, redesigned to address the limitations that prevented ROS 1 adoption in commercial and safety-critical deployments. The most consequential change is the move […]